02 April 2019

Obsequy



… the unavailing gestures of impotent hopes are sealed in earth overset with rock

There is inestimable companionship in graveyards
Where the unavailing gestures of impotent hopes
Are sealed in earth overset with rock, and many dead
No longer fret and fume, but rest ; while the knowledge
Of the life their corpses once have housed
Is breathing on the granite and the marble slabs
When the atmosphere about is conscious, if with vainest grief.


… Robert McAlmon
(1895-1956), American author, poet and publisher.

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